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The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has assured the general public that Menthodex Cough mixture currently on their Ghanaian market is safe. The assurance comes in the wake of information being circulated on social media about Menthodex Cough mixture with a manufacturing date of April 2019. The FDA said it initiated investigations to find out the source of the product “but our initial checks by the Market Surveillance Team have indicated that the said Menthodex is not on the Ghanaian market”. It noted that all Menthodex registered for the Ghanaian market are safe for use and are imported by a…

One of the five pillars of the Year of Reading concept being promoted by the Ghana Library Authority is LITERACY. The Oxford dictionary definesliteracy as the ability to read and write.  The key to literacy is reading development, a progression of skills which begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and which culminates in the deep understanding of text. It is necessary we take into consideration how today’s changing technological landscape offers both promise and challenges to literacy instruction. But it is critical to fit technology into education and discuss how literacy education can meet society’s increasing demand…

The Member of Parliament for the Tamale North Constituency, Alhaji Suhuyini Alhassan, has stated quite strongly the need for political parties in Ghana to have disbanded vigilante groups a long time ago. According to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP, he is not in a position to speak for his party on its position on vigilantism but would on his own accord want an end to the act. Speaking on TV3’s New Day Wednesday, Mr. Suhuyini tells the history of the Azorka Boys, a group known to be pro-NDC, but suggested the New Patriotic Party (NPP) took a cue and…

It was an exciting evening of beautiful jazz, Afropop and soul music when the Stanbic Street Jazz train made a stop at the Obetsebi Lamptey Circle in Accra on Wednesday night. The event is the third of a series of street jazz activations ahead of the 2019 Stanbic Jazz Festival scheduled to take place from February 28 to March 2 at the Labadi Beach Hotel and Fantasy Dome in Accra. The ‘Jazz in the heart of the city’ opened with emerging Ghanaian band FRA. Compared to the legendary Osibisa, FRA has been described as the future of live band music in Ghana…

It was an exciting evening of beautiful jazz, Afropop and soul music when the Stanbic Street Jazz train made a stop at the Obetsebi Lamptey Circle in Accra on Wednesday night. The event is the third of a series of street jazz activations ahead of the 2019 Stanbic Jazz Festival scheduled to take place from February 28 to March 2 at the Labadi Beach Hotel and Fantasy Dome in Accra. The ‘Jazz in the heart of the city’ opened with emerging Ghanaian band FRA. Compared to the legendary Osibisa, FRA has been described as the future of live band music in Ghana…

Member of Parliament for Tamale North Alhassan Suhuyini has suggested President Nana Akufo-Addo will only seek to impress the people of Ghana with impressive speech when he delivers the State of the Nation Address Thursday. While many are looking forward to an address which will inspire confidence in all aspects of the economy, especially security, which has become a topical matter of concern, the MP said he does not expect “anything” from the President. “I’m tired of listening to our president; he talks a lot, makes impressive statement but does so little”, Mr. Suhuyini said Wednesday on TV3 New Day.…

Uganda’s ruling party has endorsed President Yoweri Museveni as its candidate for the 2021 elections. This means the 74-year-old leader, who came to power in 1986, will be running for a sixth term. The National Resistance Movement (NRM) agreed, in a meeting chaired by Mr Museveni on Wednesday, that he should “continue leading the movement and the state in 2021 and beyond to eliminate bottlenecks to transformation”. Mr Museveni once said leaders who “overstayed” in office were the root of Africa’s problems. However, he said, while running for a fifth term in 2016, that it was not the right time…

Marriage is never going to be the same again for the two couples who sailed through Connect FM’s Valentine reality show, dubbed Love Connection. They enjoyed the ultimate prize of spending two romantic nights at Maaha Beach Resort near Atuabo in the Western Region. Love Connection is a Valentine’s Day radio reality show carved to suit married couples in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis and its environs. The event, which started three years ago, brings together married couples to contest on varying issues about themselves, organizers and sponsors. It seeks to rekindle love and romance and also give them the opportunity to…

Marriage is never going to be the same again for the two couples who sailed through Connect FM’s Valentine reality show, dubbed Love Connection. They enjoyed the ultimate prize of spending two romantic nights at Maaha Beach Resort near Atuabo in the Western Region. Love Connection is a Valentine’s Day radio reality show carved to suit married couples in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis and its environs. The event, which started three years ago, brings together married couples to contest on varying issues about themselves, organizers and sponsors. It seeks to rekindle love and romance and also give them the opportunity to…